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Track: Hopeless Bleak Despair
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Album: Mink Car

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Alternative/indie rock band that was formed in 1982. The band was started by [a=John Linnell] and [a=John Flansburgh], who are still the band's only official members. They were initially accompanied by a drum machine before employing a backing band in 1992. Current backing band members: [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/397707-Dan-Miller-2]Dan Miller[/url] (guitar since 1998) [a=Danny Weinkauf] (bass since 1998, full time since 1999) [a=Marty Beller] (drums since 2002, full time since 2004) Former backing band members (years are approximate): [a=Brian Doherty (4)] (drums, 1993-1996) [a=Dan Hickey] (drums, 1997-2003) [a=Eric Schermerhorn] (guitar, 1996-1998) [a=Graham Maby] (bass, 1994-1999, studio only until 1996 and again after mid-1997) [a=Hal Cragin] (bass, 1997-1998, live only) [a=Jay Sherman-Godfrey] (guitar, 1993-1996, studio only) [a=Jonathan Feinberg] (drums, 1992, live only) [a=Kurt Hoffman] (keyboard and woodwinds, 1992-1994) [a=Tony Maimone] (bass, 1992-1995, live only after 1994)

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Release: They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
Year: 2022
Genres: Rock
Styles: Alternative Rock

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LYRICS

I never knew what everybody meant by endless, hopeless bleak despair
Until one day when I found out
The first time I ever left my house
It saw me and followed me home
And stayed with me for my whole life
For years and years I wandered the earth
Condemned to a life of bleak despair
Then one day I looked around and found
It had disappeared

All this bleak despair
It was always there
And then one day it disappeared
In a puff of smoke
In an unceremonious way
One day it disappeared

All I had ever wanted in my life was only to be free of it
It drove away my family
It made me lose my job
Whenever anybody saw it
They'd say get out of here

For years and years I wandered the earth
Sick of my life, looking forward to death
The one day I looked around and found
It had disappeared

All this bleak despair
It was always there
And then one day it disappeared
In a puff of smoke
In an unceremonious way
One day it disappeared

For years and years I wandered the earth
Until I died and went to hell but my
Despair had ascended to heaven
That's how I finally got rid of it